This cake is delicious. It is reminiscent of my favorite cookie-the snickerdoodle. While it is not exactly like the snickerdoodle it is very close. Delicious with cinnamon buttercream!

Snickerdoodle Cake w/Cinnamon Buttercream

Ingredients

Cake:

1 box white cake mix

1 c whole milk

1/2 c (1 stick) butter, melted

3 large eggs

1 t vanilla extract

2 t ground cinnamon

Cinnamon Buttercream:

1 stick butter, room temperature

3 3/4 c powdered sugar, sifted

3-4 T milk

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 and prepare 2 8″ or 9″ pans.

With an electric mixer, combine cake mix, milk, melted butter, eggs, vanilla, and cinnamon. Once combined, scrape down sides of bowl and increase to medium speed to for 2-3 minutes or until well combined. Divide between prepared pans.

Bake approx. 27-30 min. Cakes will be golden brown and spring back when gently pressed.

Cool in pans on a wire rack for 10 min. then remove from pans and cool completely.

When cool fill and ice with cinnamon buttercream.

To make cinnamon buttercream:

Beat butter with an electric mixer until fluffy. Add cinnamon, vanilla, and 3 T of milk, and slowly add powdered sugar. After all powdered sugar is added, increase speed to medium and beat until light and fluffy. Add additional milk as necessary to get desired consistency.

I try out new recipes at my husband's office... they are all a bunch of cake addicts... and this one was a home run! thank you so much for posting it... it is a new favorite in our house and everywhere i take it.

Sorry...I don't know why the measurements for the cinnamon and vanilla didn't go through when I posted the recipe. I even proofread!! It is 1 teaspoon of each in the frosting. And scrumpot is correct with the teaspoon and Tablespoon. Hope you all liked it!

I tried it out last night. The cake was ultra good! Very moist and tasty, but the BC was a bit sweet. I salted the frosting while it was mixing because I used unsalted butter and it was still came out very sweet. After leaving in the frig overnight I gave it a try again this afternoon. It was much better, the sweetness calmed down. like most cakes it took a little time for the flavors to marry. I'll be making this again! :)

This cake is really quite tasty, I just ate some warm from the oven and it does taste like a delicious cake version of a snickerdoodle. The only problem I had...and it is a pretty big one actually, is that it is almost TOO tender. I made the recipie twice for a 10" square pan. The first one I was able to VERY carefully remove, but the second one totally fell apart as I took it out of the pan, absolute pile of crumbs, no way to salvage it and frost it at all. I will have to make another one :(

OK... I am following up: This cake was an absolute hit at work! I had several people take TWO pieces, and some comments that this was "the best yet". So, aside from my aforementioned "cumbling" issues, it was a dang tasty cake. I have learned (at least for the big 10" square I made) to let it cool in the pan FIRST (not something I normally do) before I attempt to invert it on my cooling rack!
zgreenwood: I personally think chocolate ganache is great with nearly EVERYTHING, but the cinnamon buttercream was perfect with this cake.

I was looking for a new flavor and this was it! The cake was great and so much like a Snickerdoodle! I used some leftover buttercream and added some cinnamon to it - perfection! My husband is not a huge cake eater, but I'd say at least half was eaten by him. Thanks for sharing!

ok i have made this as cupcakes. now I am going to try and use this recipe for my giant cupcake that i need to make for my sisters birthday.
I'm a little scared now with reading that someones cake crumbled.
I'll let you know how it comes out.
Wish me luck

I made this recipe for a wedding cake and everyone raved about it .... I didnt buy a box white cake no time to go out and buy it so I made a white recipe I had ..it was fantastic. Thank you I will use this again.